If the pythons you require are in synaptic (sudo to root and run synaptic), you probably can just use them.
If not, then you, for each release, need to: 1) download a tarball using a browser or whatever 2) extract the tarball: tar xvfp foo.tar.bz2 3) cd into the newly created, top-level directory, and run ./configure --prefix /usr/local/cpython-2.6 (or similar) 4) Run "make", optionally with parallelism; I often use number_of_cores+1, so for a quad core system, I might use "make -j 5". This speeds up the build. 5) Run /usr/local/cpython-2.6/bin/python - just to make sure it gives a prompt. control-d to exit. 6) Try running your script with one of your new python builds: /usr/local/cpython-2.6/bin/python my-script I've done this for 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and the 3.3 preview stuff. They cooperate with each other well. Actually, I scripted out the build so that I'd get all 7 built automatically with cython and pylint in them. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Ubuntu 12.04 python 2.7 is the default version > > I'd like to install python 2.6 parallel to 2.7 and create a virtualenv for > it. > > The reason is, that I have to write some code, that will be executed under > 2.6 and I want to be sure, that I don't accidentally write code, that would > no more run on 2.6. > > What would be the recommended way to install (compile) 2.6 on 12.04? > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-list<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list> >
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